Tom Watson paves way for Jeremy Corbyn to push Labour reforms

Deputy leader stays away from national executive committee as party seeks to ease divisions after better-than-expected election performanceLabour’s deputy leader, Tom Watson, stayed away from a crucial meeting of the party’s ruling body in a show of deference to Jeremy Corbyn, privately telling the Labour leader that he would no longer stand in the way of party reform.Watson is understood to believe that the general election result, in which Labour outperformed expectations, had give